• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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    4 hours ago

    The American consumer is a fucking idiot, this has a high chance of success as people forget about Elon and go back to buying them.

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      I mean, in fairness, do we have any qualms with the rest of the company? Elon was directly responsible for pretty much all of the cyber truck decisions. But the regular Tesla’s, aside from Elon prohibiting lidar and making false claims about self driving, are pretty decent. Without him, lidar might get implemented, the cyber truck will probably be scrapped, and real engineers will have their voices heard again.

      Isn’t that kind of what we want from a company? To realize their errors and remove the cancerous parts?

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        He will still have a shitload of shares. I don’t need to get into the nitty-gritty detail of whether I hate the company or its products; his stock in it is what allowed him to buy the election for Trump, so fuck Tesla.

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        They’re overvalued in the triple multiples compared to other American car companies because they’re a meme stock and halfway ran on government subsidies we paid for rather than putting it into education or social causes.

        A step in the right direction isn’t good enough when there’s miles to tread.

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    Still means fuck all as long as he holds his Tesla shares. All you’re doing is making him more money by making the shares go up again.

    Drive the stock into the forking ground.

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    I’ll do it. Here’s my CV. As you can see, compared to the current CEO it’s vastly better:

    • can beat a tutorial boss. In fact, has beaten many final bosses
    • has never done a nazi salute
    • is loved by partner and child

    To top it off, I’ll do it for the low low price of 200k/year

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      I vote for this guy to run Tesla, and governement.

      I, for one, welcome our new overlordoflocksley

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      LOL was just shitting on him having no friends, damn this guy literally goes to bed fucking knowing nobody likes him

      Anybody else I’d hope their self-defense mechanisms (“Biden’s the reason people hate me” “I’m huge in Japan somewhere” “no friends but that caviar was great today”) would kick in, but sorry no sympathies extended to those who sent their “heart” out to us

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    There was a day, not too long ago, where I’d seriously considered buying a Tesla. And I nearly did.

    As of today, I for one will never buy a single Tesla product - not a car, not a truck, not a battery, not a robot, whatever - for as long as I live.

    And no decision from Tesla leadership will change my mind at this point. Fuck them.

    Even if that makes me a crazy old man 30-40 years from now when all this is in the past. Never means never.

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      I’m right there with you. I was actually considering the model 3 for a while. Even put a deposit down. Then Elon started showing his true colors around when the cybertruck was announced and it just felt wrong to keep supporting him.

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        For me, its more than just the support.

        I wouldn’t trust it even if someone gifted it to me. You don’t know what software runs on there. The car could be programmed to kill you when it see you wearing a LGBT pin on your shirt.

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        Would this include a total revamp of everything in the cars?

        Teslas product are inherently consumer hostile.

        They are bad build quality,. The user interface is made to cut costs not good UX. You need a subscription for things already in the car. Autopilot shuts off just before accidents to not make Tesla liable for the incident.

        The list just goes on.

        Everything about that company screams “fuck you” at the people buying their product.

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      So… Why would anyone from them ever listen to you? If you’re complete lost cause to them, why would they cater to your requests?

      Hard boycotts and grudges are accounted for. What you’ve done is pushed the line the other way because now there’s one less person to sway them to fix their shit, since there’s no monitary gain in you.

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        They obviously don’t care what Tesla does beyond now, but this type of reaction is a message to other similar businesses, especially one with a market of generally progressive people. One part is sticking to your own ethics and morals and not supporting a company that supports fascism, and the other part is making it known that other companies that do the same are going to suffer the consequences.

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    Elon Musk would still own an enormous portion of Tesla, so if you want Elon to be punished you should never forgive Tesla for enabling Musk

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      Meh. The only possible reason to keep accumulating after a billion is for respect and power. I’m pretty sure Elon has fucked up both to the point where most of his money gets him nothing. I’m pretty sure he is headed to a “death of despair” type ending before long.

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        I feel so bad for him

        Don’t despair Muskquito, people make new friends all the time, even entirely unlikable video game cheaters. There is a nonzero chance you might not die entirely alone. Don’t let the haters following logical trajectories get you down!

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    I’ve been expecting this, and it isn’t the only thing coming.

    Before the recent earnings call, which was far worse than we even expected, we hadn’t heard much from him over the previous few weeks. He knew that terrible call was coming, and had been laying low, probably hoping things would improve some before making what he knew would be a disastrous earnings call. It was the equivalent of watching your diet 3 days before a doctor’s appointment, hoping your weight gain and cholesterol increase won’t be as bad as you know it is.

    Also, it was a safe bet that his board of directors was livid, and that he had been ordered by his board to get back to work, or be removed as CEO of Tesla, and now it looks like they are moving toward with firing him. So why that decision?

    The probable reason is that now that the earnings call confirmed what everyone suspected, there is almost certainly a shareholder class-action suit brewing over his reckless and irresponsible behavior over the last several months, which has directly caused severe, and probably irreparable damage to the company’s brand image AND it’s sales around the world, as well as tanking the stock price, an unforgiveable sin in the investing world. Now that the bubble has popped, it will never inflate again. As future earnings reports are released, and sales continue to slide, the stock will continue to decline, and the cycle will continue until bankruptcy. And it is all traceable to Skum’s self-indulgent, egotistical behavior.

    The only question is will Skum be the only defendant, or will the lawsuit also name the individual members of the board, for not reigning him in, or firing him. They don’t want to be sued alongside him, so they are forcing him to get back to work saving Tesla, or even getting rid of him altogether, thus letting them off the hook for legal liability.

    Its doubtful Skum, or anyone else, will be able to save Tesla at this point, its almost certainly too late. It is also probably too late to avoid a shareholder lawsuit. Investors have lost millions of dollars, not due to the vagaries of the market, but due to Skum’s outrageous behavior, like throwing up celebratory Nazi salutes on national TV, which, as CEO, he should have realized would damage his company and its investors significantly.

    And arguing that he didn’t recognize the danger in advance is no excuse at all for a CEO, who should have been able to predict the response to his self-indulgent ego bender.

    Shareholders have lost many millions, and they won’t just let that go with an “Oh well.” He’s likely going to get sued, and the board is just making sure they don’t go down with him.

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      Yeah, except he and his brother own majority shares in Tesla and pretty much hand-picked the board. I bet this is nothing but performative; they get a new ‘face’ for the company while he still runs Tesla from the background, Wizard of Oz style.

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        He was ousted as CEO once, and he’s put in preventative measures in every company since.

        If they’re replacing him, it’s with his blessing specifically to try and prevent losses. And you can bet your ass that he’ll be a “special employee/consultant” that has the power to veto the new CEO.

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          Oh, he runs it. Just not well. He sucks at real CEO work like he sucks at everything else in his life.

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    The board needs to not only punt Elon, they need to buy him out.

    I’ll consider Tesla as an option a decade after he’s been scrubbed from the company.

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    I cannot coherently express how much I hope he gets margin called on all of the leveraged assets he has that are underwritten by his TSLA shares

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    I volunteer as tribute if it means I can get fired in 6 months for my incompetence and be provided with a $25 million dollar severance package.

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    Why do I feel like they are just pumping the stock up? What is to stop them from changing their mind and selling the moment they say “Just kidding!” . Rinse and repeat. Might as well since market manipulation is not illegal anymore if you are in the three comma club.